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BENJAMIN BERTRAM, associate professor of English,
presented a paper on theater and global trade titled "The
Trade in Newfangledness"at the Shakespeare Association of
America meeting in Bermuda, March 17-19.
SCOTT W. BROWN, professor of psychology, presented
a paper titled "Effects of Concurrent Timing on Sequence Versus
Similarity Judgments" at the New England Sequencing and Timing
(NEST) 15th annual meeting at Yale University on March 5,
2005. The paper was co-authored by USM student Steven Usher,
who served as the research assistant for the experiment.
ARDIS CAMERON, professor of American and New England
Studies, published "Boys Do Cry: The Rhetorical Power of the
New Labor History," in Labor: Studies in Working Class History
of the Americas (Volume 1, Issue 3, 1 September, 2004). In
December, her edited collection, "Looking For America: The
Visual Production of People and Nation," was published by
Blackwell Publishing. Cameron was named to the editorial board
of the New York University Press series on Labor and Culture
last February.
SUSAN M. CAMPBELL, executive director of Advising
and Academic Resources, adjunct associate professor of adult
education, will receive the Virginia N. Gordon Award for Excellence
in the Field of Advising from the National Association of
Academic Advising (NACADA) at the NACADA conference next October.
DONNA M. CASSIDY, professor of art and American and
New England Studies, had her latest book, "Marsden Hartley:
Race, Region, and Nation," published by University Press of
New England this spring.
KAREN CROTEAU, associate professor of sports medicine,
co-authored an article titled "Sloth or Gluttony: Understanding
Obesity in New Zealand" for publication in Youth Studies Australia.
She is currently on sabbatical leave conducting research in
New Zealand.
LIZ ELLIOTT, instructor of nursing, attended a conference
on Atherosclerosis in Women, in Rockport, Maine on March 12-13.
MICHAEL S. HAMILTON, professor of political science,
was nominated by an anonymous student to the 9th edition of
Who's Who Among America's Teachers, to be published in September
2005.
VALERIE HART, associate professor of nursing, presented
an invited paper, "Teaching Evidence Based Clinical Practice:
Combining Curiosity and Passion," at a conference on Master's
Nursing Education sponsored by the American Association of
the Colleges of Nursing in San Diego last February. She also
published "Case Study on Bipolar Disorder: A 30-Year-Old Attorney
with Erratic Behavior" in the March issue of Clinical Advisor.
RITA HEIMES, director of the University of Maine School
of Law Center for Law and Innovation, has been invited to
serve on the Maine Science and Technology Advisory Board which
will advise Maine's new Office of Innovation.
DAVID JONES, associate professor of therapeutic recreation,
co-authored an article, "The Status of Clinical Supervision
in Therapeutic Recreation: A National Study," that appeared
in the Therapeutic Recreation Journal (Vol. 38, No. 4, pp.
329-347, 2004).
MARGE LAWSON, associate professor of nursing, attended
the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Task Force
Meeting in Washington D.C. in March.
LOIS R. LUPICA, professor of law, has been selected
to serve as reporter to Maine's Task Force on the American
Bar Association's Ethics 2000 Project, which is charged with
reformulating Maine Bar Rule 3 to conform to the structure
of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Responsibility and
to recommend substantive changes in the Maine Rules as appropriate.
CORINNE MARTIN, instructor of holistic health, attended
a seminar on Via Feminina in Scottsdale, Ariz., last March.
JEFF MAINE, professor of law, was invited to present
at an ALI-ABA course on Internet Law for the Practical Lawyer,
held in April in Washington D.C. His article "Taxing the New
Intellectual Property Right" is the lead article in Volume
56 of the Hastings Law Journal.
ROSE MARASCO, professor of art, received the 2005
"Excellence in Photographic Teaching" award from the Santa
Fe Center for Photography (www.santafecenterforphotography.org).
NANCY RICHESON, assistant professor of therapeutic
recreation, was invited to present a paper on "Non-drug Approaches
to Pain for Persons with Dementia" at the Community of Caring
conference at the Center for Positive Aging, Florida Gulf
Coast University, on March 17. She also attended the fourth
annual "Dementia Day Camp" at Florida Gulf Coast University
in Fort Myers, FL, on March 19, and was invited to participate
in a live radio show on WGCU Florida Public radio on Monday,
March 14, on the topic of "Non-drug Approaches to Care for
Persons with Dementia." Richeson recently attended the American
Therapeutic Recreation Association board meeting and mid-year
conference in Washington D.C. in March.
GALE RHODES, professor of chemistry, is author of
the Web site, "The Molecular Level: Tools for Structural Biology
Education and Training." The site was featured in the "Netwatch"column
of the April 22 issue of Science magazine.
BETTY ROBINSON, associate professor of leadership
and organizational studies, Lewiston-Auburn College, has been
awarded the Donald Harward Faculty Award for Service-Learning
Excellence.
LYDIA SAVAGE, associate professor of geography, co-edited
a themed section for Volume 34 of the journal Geoforum, titled
"New Geographies of Trade Unionism," and co-authored an introduction
for that issue. She published "Public Sector Unions Shaping
Hospital Privatization: The Creation of Boston Medical Center"
in Environment and Planning (Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 547-568).
Savage was an invited speaker at Labor at the Crossroads:
Competing Visions, Alternative Strategies and the Future of
the U.S. Labor Movement conference, organized by the Queens
College Labor Research Center and New Labor Forum in New York
City on December 2-3, 2004.
JUDY SPROSS, associate professor of nursing, co-authored
an article in Oncology Nursing Forum (Vol. 32, pp. 363-374,
2005), titled "Do Patients' Beliefs Act as Barriers to Effective
Pain Management Behaviors and Outcomes in Patients with Cancer-
Related and Non-Cancer-Related Pain?" She gave a speech on
"Renewing the Spirit of Leadership: Enhancing Individual Leadership
Skills" at the Student Nurses' Association of Maine, Kennebec
Valley Community College, Fairfield, Maine, on March 19. She
also did a joint presentation at the American Association
of Colleges of Nursing, Clinical Nurse Leader Pilot Project
in Boston on "The CNL and CNS Role Statement: Similarities
& Complementaries" on April 1.
BRIAN TOY, associate professor of sports medicine,
published an article titled "Attending Graduate School vs.
Obtaining Employment" that appeared in the Journal of Training
and Conditioning, (Vol. 14, No. 1, 2005).
DEBORAH TUERKHEIMER, associate professor of law, had
her article, "Reconceptualizing Violence Against Pregnant
Women," accepted for publication in Volume 81 of the Indiana
Law Journal to appear in early 2006. Tuerkheimer also was
invited to make a presentation at Brooklyn Law School in April
on "Beyond Fetal Victimhood: Pregnancy Battering and the Pregnant
Woman." She has been asked to serve on the Maine Federal Public
Defender Selection Committee, which will be selecting Maine's
first federal public defender.
THOMAS M. WARD, professor of law, served as seminar
moderator at the annual seminar of the Financial Lawyers Conference
in California, April 16-17. In his capacity as co-chair of
the subsection on Intellectual Property Financing, Ward moderated
a panel at the spring meeting of the ABA Business Law Section
in Nashville.
RICHARD WEST, professor and chair of communication
and media studies, co- authored three books, published in
April and July: "Introducing Communication Theory" (3rd Edition),
"Perspectives on Family Communication" (3rd Edition), and
"Understanding Interpersonal Communication: Making Choices
in Changing Times."
JENNIFER WRIGGINS, professor of law, had her article,
"Toward a Feminist Revision of Torts," published in the American
University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law (Vol.
13, No. 1). Wriggins' article, "Domestic Violence in the First-Year
Torts Curriculum," appears in the Journal of Legal Education
(Vol. 54, No. 4). Two earlier articles, "Domestic Violence
Torts" and "Interspousal Tort Immunity and Insurance 'Family
Member Exclusions': Shared Assumptions, Relational and Liberal
Feminist Challenges," are included in excerpted form in the
new third edition of Studies in American Tort Law by Johnson
and Gunn. In March, Wriggins served on a panel at Harvard
Law School on "Women and Tort Law: Hidden Victims, Hidden
Curriculum."
DONALD ZILLMAN, Godfrey professor of law, was invited
to present to the International Bar Association Seminar in
Toledo, Spain on "The Changing Face of Regulation in the Energy
and Natural Resources Sectors" in May. While there, Zillman,
delivered a lecture to the Spanish Energy Club on "Global
Trends Toward New and Old Ways of Energy Regulation."
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